Should We Fall Behind

Sharon Duggal

dec. 2024 · Canopy Limited · Berättare: Antonio Aakeel

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Should We Fall Behind. Should We Fall Behind is about the passing of time and the intricate weaves of joy and suffering, love. Jimmy Noone escapes his difficult life in a small town and finds himself living on the streets of a big city where he meets Betwa, who brings with her a chance of real friendship and a glimpse of new hope. Betwa disappears and Jimmy walks across the sprawling metropolis searching for her. He arrives on Shifnal Road on the other side of the river where people from all over the world live side by side yet some inhabitants are so isolated they seem to have disappeared altogether. Jimmy becomes the catalyst for their lives colliding. Journeys to the street and to the city are retraced, so too are stories abundant with lost dreams, unrivalled friendship, profound love and stifling grief, each underpinned with the subtle threads of commonality which intersect them all. Should We Fall Behind is about the passing of time, and the intricate weaves of joy and suffering, love and loss which shape human life along the way. It is about the people who have somehow become invisible, and how their stories make them visible once more. A BBC 2 Between The Covers Book Club Choice.

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Sharon Duggal writes novels and short stories. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind (2020, Bluemoose Books) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's 2021 Encore Award, selected for Between the Covers, BBC television's flagship book show and chosen as a Prima Magazine Book of the Year. Her debut, The Handsworth Times was The Morning Star's Fiction Book of the Year 2016 and selected as the Brighton City Reads in 2017. Her short fiction appears in various anthologies including The Book of Birmingham and Love Bites: Fiction Inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks. Sharon is currently working on her third novel.. Sharon is a Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Fellow at the University of Brighton. Sharon was born and grew up in Birmingham, England as part of a large Indian family. As well as being a writer, she is also one half of Radio Reverb's long-running The Ruben and Sharon Show, the UK's only regular radio show with a mum and son producer/presenter team.

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